It is about time that people acknowledge the truth!

First: that it has been scientifically “PROVEN” that homosexuality is a “choice”. That is, that it is “not” hereditery.
http://www.narth.com/menus/search.html?cx=007457206426124633447%3Adybvfspccfw&cof=FORID%3A11&q=heredity#1008
Second: That it has been shown through scientific studies that homosexuality and pedophilia are indeed connected.
http://www.narth.com/menus/search.html?cx=007457206426124633447%3Adybvfspccfw&cof=FORID%3A11&q=pedophilia+homosexulaity#946
Third: That science has shown that these ‘conditions’ can be reversed.
http://www.narth.com/menus/search.html?cx=007457206426124633447%3Adybvfspccfw&cof=FORID%3A11&q=can+be+reversed#935

I CAN DO all things through Christ Who strengthens me!

Fourth: That our Faith has shown that these ‘conditions’ can be reversed. OR Maybe this should be the First Truth?
Phi 4:13  I can do all things in him who strengthens me.

• First in order to have “The Bible Alone” as your Authority, you would have to have the Original Manuscripts written by the Original Authors themselves, (If you did not then you would be accepting someone else’s translation of the Original Manuscript. This other person would be ‘outside’ the Bible. So, it would be impossible, for this reason to have The Bible Alone as your Authority.)
• Second – You would not only need the Original Copy of the Bible you would have to know the languages, Ancient Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. You would also need to know the Customs and Colloquialisms of the Era. (If you do not know the Ancient Languages you would have to accept a ‘translation’ outside The Bible. The same holds true for the Customs of the time. If you did not live in the time The Bible was written, you could not possibly know the Customs as they were meant to be known, without accepting someone’s teaching, outside The Bible.)
  The Bottom Line would be that each person that espouses this “Bible Alone” Theology as their Authority. In reality they are their own pope”! Basically they are saying; “I pick up this book The Bible and with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, decide for myself, anything I want to believe. Even if 1 billion Christians disagree with me. I know I have it right because the Holy Spirit says He will guide me… right in the bible!

   

“Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

•A miser or cheapskate is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts. The term derives from the Latin miser, meaning “poor” or “wretched,” comparable to the modern word “miserable”.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap

Frugal

•Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/frugal

Charity

•In modern usage, the practice of charity means the giving of help to those in need who are not related to the giver.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_ (practice)

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http://www.bluntmoney.com/frugal-vs-cheap/

I often say, when people attack The Catholic Church, “They are biting the hand that feeds them”!

That’s right! Ungrateful, ignorant people continue to attack the one organization that without it the world would be a much darker, hopeless place to live!

Let me give you just some figures for The Catholic Church in the US for the year 2006.

Catholic Education

Total Catholic elementary and high school student enrollment: 2,310,540
•Elementary Schools: 6,197 schools educating 1,638,114 students

•High Schools: 1,350 schools educating 672,426 students

•Colleges and Universities: 236 institutions educating 785,619 students

•Non-residential Schools for Handicapped Persons: 82 schools educating 8,659 students

•Public School Students Receiving Religious Education:
?Elementary school students: 3,387,142

?High school students: 732,917

Catholic Health Care9
•Hospitals: 556 Catholic hospitals treated 84,736,305 patients

•Other Health Care Centers: 429 centers treated 6,517,561 patients

•Specialized Homes: 1,517 assisted 653,719 residents

•Residential Care of Children: 986 locations assisted 60,861 residents

Catholic Charities
Social Services10
More than 1,735 local Catholic Charities agencies and institutions provided services to 7,854,104 unduplicated individuals in need of help in 2004.
Provided Services that Build Strong Communities to 3,618,993 people

•Social support services 1,698,047
•Education and enrichment 747,021
•Socialization and neighborhood services 609,149
•Health-related services 234,635
•Services to at-risk populations 331,141
Provided Food Services to 6,360,939 people

•Food banks and food pantries 2,373,087
•Soup kitchens 1,826,738
•Congregate dining 1,232,217
•Home delivered meals 279,345
•Other food services 649,520
Provided Services that Strengthen Families to 1,093,339 people

•Counseling and mental health services 468,844
•Immigration services 341,087
•Addiction services 97,980
•Refugee services 77,801
•Pregnancy services 65,718
•Adoption services 41,909
Provided Housing Related Services to 474,999 people

•Housing services 171,787
•Temporary shelter 139,938
•Supervised living 102,297
•Permanent housing 41,424
•Transitional housing 19,553
Provided Other Basic Needs Services to 1,384,101 people

•Emergency Financial Assistance (not rent, mortgage, etc.) 154,637
•Clothing Assistance 533,828
•Utilities Assistance 167,510
•Medication Assistance 47,136
•Additional Other Basic Needs Assistance 480,990
Provided Disaster Services to 567,334 people
(Back to me – just an afterthought, think about this… all you who try to tear down The Church! Without The Catholic church doing all these beneficial things, the US taxpayers would have to pick up the tab!)

Christ Our Hope

Senator Obama Is Not A Catholic Voter’s Choice
“Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” John 7:24

Senator Barack Obama is not a loving, caring Christian. His voting record and his stance on important issues show his true, selfish, nature.

from Senator Obama’s web site:
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060628-call_to_renewal_1/

“I think that we should put more of our tax dollars into educating poor girls and boys. I think that the work that Marian Wright Edelman has done all her life is absolutely how we should prioritize our resources in the wealthiest nation on earth. I also think that we should give them the information about contraception that can prevent unwanted pregnancies, lower abortion rates, and help assure that that every child is loved and cherished.” (This statement shows a lack of caring and love for the poor. For more information: Physicians For Life)

“But the reason the doctor was considering not voting for me was not simply my position on abortion. Rather, he had read an entry that my campaign had posted on my website, which suggested that I would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.”"
(Again, showing a lack of love for women.)

(This is a man who cares for… what(?), certainly not love of his fellow man.)
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also from page: http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060628-call_to_renewal/

“But what they didn’t understand, however, was that I had to take Mr. [Alan] Keyes seriously, for he claimed to speak for my religion, and my God. He claimed knowledge of certain truths.

Mr. Obama says he’s a Christian, he was saying, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.

Mr. Obama says he’s a Christian, but supports the destruction of innocent and sacred life.

And so what would my supporters have me say? How should I respond? Should I say that a literalist reading of the Bible was folly? Should I say that Mr. Keyes, who is a Roman Catholic, should ignore the teachings of the Pope?

Unwilling to go there, I answered with what has come to be the typically liberal response in such debates – namely, I said that we live in a pluralistic society, that I can’t impose my own religious views on another, that I was running to be the U.S. Senator of Illinois and not the Minister of Illinois.”

(So, Senator Obama admits that he is for a “lifestyle” that is opposed to the “Bible” actually a lifestyle opposed to LOVE and that he is opposed to the teachings of the Catholic Church.)

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http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm

from Source: 2008 Democratic Compassion Forum at Messiah College Apr 13, 2008:

“Undecided on whether life begins at conception
Q: Do you personally believe that life begins at conception?
A: This is something that I have not come to a firm resolution on. I think it’s very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I don’t presume to know the answer to that question. What I know is that there is something extraordinarily powerful about potential life and that that has a moral weight to it that we take into consideration when we’re having these debates.”
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http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm

Expand access to contraception; reduce unintended pregnancy
AT A GLANCE
Reproductive Choice: Obama has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving a women’s right to choose under Roe v. Wade a priority as president. Obama also supports expanded access to contraception, health information and preventive services to reduce unintended pregnancies.
OBAMA’S PLAN
Protecting a Women’s Right to Choose: Obama will make safeguarding women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority. He opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn that decision.
Reducing Unintended Pregnancy: Obama will work to reduce unintended pregnancy by guaranteeing equity in contraceptive coverage, providing sex education, and offering rape victims accurate information about emergency contraception.
OBAMA RECORD
Throughout his career, in both the Illinois Senate & the US Senate, Obama has stood up for a women’s right to choose, consistently earning 100% ratings from pro-choice groups.
Source: Campaign booklet, “Blueprint for Change”, p. 35-36 Feb 2, 2008

Rated 100% by NARAL on pro-choice votes in 2005, 2006 & 2007
Sen. Obama received the following scores on NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Congressional Record on Choice.
2007: 100 percent
2006: 100 percent
2005: 100 percent

Voted against banning partial birth abortion
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on Homosexuality
(He actually misuses the Bible!)

While, on his own web site, he states that people should use non religious support for their stance and then he changes his own stance by using, excuse me, I mean he changes his own position by “MIS”using the Bible to prove his point!
from his web site: “This brings me to my second point. Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”
(It is a hard thing for me to trust a man who can not follow his own advice.)

from Catholic news agency:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11991

“”I don’t think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,” said Obama. “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.”"

(ME – Philip Turgati – www.iamonetruth.com)
If the Senator cared at all about those that consider themselves homosexual he would tell them the truth, in a loving, caring way. That being, that while a man can love a man and a woman can love a woman, erotic love between them is unnatural by simply looking at nature. While the bodies of men and women were naturally meant to compliment one another… that isn’t the case with the gay orientation. It is simple “common sense”. Something that seems to be sadly lacking in a selfish world.

“So you must realize that the LORD, your God, disciplines you even as a man disciplines his son.” [Deuteronomy 8:5]

“for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.” [Hebrews 12:6]

I just read in an article about Dion DiMucci, some of you remember, Dion and The Belmonts, “The Wanderer” & “Run Around Sue”, about him coming home to God in The Catholic Church.

I quote the article and Dion;

“The story of DiMucci’s rise and fall, conversion and return to the Catholic Church is rare in American popular culture in that on the way back he didn’t stop at the celebrity church of tolerance.

Some of these people worship at the altar of tolerance. They say that means you love people. But it’s not love. To me, the grown-ups tell you what’s wrong. Real grown-ups will disapprove of something their kid does but loves him totally,” DiMucci said.”

(end from article in “The Catholic World Report” March 2008)

People will say on hearing the Scripture; “for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines”, “I want the love but not the discipline”. However, they are mistaken the love is the discipline… they are one and the same… inseparable.

Discipline leads to “obedience”.

I hear all the time how people have a “problem with the Catholic Church”, they claim that their problem isn’t with God, because The Church gives them God’s Laws in easy and not-so-easy to digest sound bites. I hear this from those within The Church and those outside equally.St. Paul would disagree, when he uses the term in his Letter to the Romans chapters 1 & 16, “obedience of faith”. He starts his Letter with this term and to make sure his children do not forget ends his teaching with it. [Romans 1:5 & 16:26]Faith in God means that we believe He loves us and it means that we are disciplined.

A good friend sent me an email with a link to Sen. Obama’s speech on Race in America.

I sent the following reply. 

Hi! It is always good to hear from you.

I appreciate the email. It takes some courage to stand up for what we believe is right.
While I listened to the whole speech as best I could, I could not help seeing the direct correlation of Senator Obama’s issue on race and that of abortion.

He started his speech with our Nation’s “Founding Father’s” and the drawing up and signing of The Declaration of Independence. Declaring our Nation’s freedom from the oppression of the mighty power of England. We had no voice, under their yoke.

He mentioned, something that I didn’t know, that being, at the drawing up of “The Declaration” our Founding Fathers put off the question of slavery for 20 yrs. Many hearing his remarks would think that was a mistake.

That reminded me of the signing of Roe Vs. Wade. The Supreme Court put off the question of when human life begins.

Common Sense would dictate that the Justices should have answered that question first. Then, once the issue is clear, they can make an informed decision.

His speech was on Race in America. I found many of his remarks “fit” the abortion issue. I will only share a few here. Sen. Obama stated; “Race is an issue that we [America] simply can not ignore!”

Common Sense would say; “Abortion, that is, the plight of the unborn, is an issue that America can simply not afford to ignore!”
Just because Americans have the POWER to claim that a whole “class” of human beings are not human and do not deserve to live, that fact, does not give us the right to do so!

Sen. Obama draws his speech to a close by quoting a teaching of “the religions of the world”; “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you!”

I agree.

There would be no need to put yourself in danger.

Now, it would be different if you ran out into speeding traffic to save a child that is in the road and as you go, you ask God to help you... THAT WOULD BE BOTH LOVING, PRUDENT & COURAGEOUS.]   (CCC 1808 FORTITUDE or COURAGE = It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause.) 

Spending/handling money imprudently, is a temptation from Satan, not an act of Faith.